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Thursday, November 19, 2015

2015 TransGriot NFL Picks- Week 11

The 2015 NFL season keeps rolling along in addition to our prognostication contest, and Week 10 played havoc with our predictions as it was a Sunday chock full of upsets.

One of those upsets was my hometown NFL ballers knocking off in the glare of the Monday Night Football spotlights the previously unbeaten Cincinnati Bengals 10-6 in their building with T J Yates at quarterback.

Surprise surprise, as a result of improbable win, the Texans are now in a first place tie with the Colts in the putrid this year AFC South with a 4-5 record.

And because of all the NFL Week 10 upsets, we all of ended up below .500 in our Week 10 picks and yours truly tied my records for my worst ever prognostication week. If I end up falling short in my quest to win this 2015 NFL Prognostication title, this week will probably be the reason I lost it.

But despite the putrid week for all of us, like the AFC South, somebody had to win Week 10. Eli managed to keep his momentum going by taking his third straight week with a best of the worst 6-8 record and has gotten back in the running for the 2015 title.

This is also the final contest week we will be picking only 14 games because this is the last week of NFL teams getting their bye week, Those teams finally getting their opportunity to watch everyone else play on Sunday are the Browns, Saints, Steelers and Giants.

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Monica Roberts, AKA the TransGriot (Gree-oh) is a native Houstonian, GLAAD award nominated blogger, writer, and award winning trans human rights advocate. She's the founding editor of TransGriot, and her writing has appeared at the Bilerico Project, Ebony.com, The Huffington Post and the Advocate.
She works to foster understanding and acceptance of trans people inside and outside communities of color and was recently honored with the Virginia Prince Transgender Pioneer Award

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